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Christophe Coenraets, an Adobe Technical Evangelist, wrote a cool tutorial on the BlackBerry Support Forums, showing how easy it is to make a company directory app for the PlayBook using Adobe Flex Hero. In 90 minutes, Christophe says you should be able to build a company directory app that lets you:

The entire bezel is touch sensitive and can be used to swipe between apps and bring up menus.

The virtual keyboard and screen are multitouch. You can also get the keyboard in both landscape and portrait.

There are swipe gestures galore.

While the event is an Adobe event meant for developers, a lot of media have been showing up to take a look at the device. Even though they’ll tell you they got a “hands-on”, it looks like RIM isn’t letting anyone play around with it too much as the device isn’t ready for consumption. It would be cool to hear more about the APIs and features that will be available to developers. We’ll try and get you those details soon.

The third BlackBerry PlayBook developer webcast will be broadcasted at 2PM EST or 11AM PST. In this webcast, you can learn about how to integrate your app with the PlayBook tablet using the Adobe AIR 2.5 APIs and the BlackBerry Tablet OS APIs. Other topics included in the webcast are:

The next BlackBerry PlayBook webcast where RIM and Adobe will be demonstrating the SDK will be held on November 11th. The first webcast was helpful but there are still a lot of unanswered questions, so hopefully RIM has taken the time to plan out a little more about what features will be available to developers and give us a better idea of the roadmap. Remember, a lot of what they build into the feature roadmap will be based on demand so openly voice your support for certain features.